Ask Alexa - Can I change the world when I am upset inside?

Alexa: How can I work to change the world when I am so angry, resentful, and full of grievance?

You can't because as it is written in A Course In Miracles, "It is the witness of your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive, Therefore seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

Alexa: Did you hear about the guy who got an exorbinant doctor's bill when he dropped his cable box on his foot?

Yes, it cost so much more because he saw a doctor of network.

Ask Alexa - What kind of life does a negative pessimistic kind of person have?

Alexa: What happens if I wake up in the morning and don't like myself and think the world is a bad place where only hurful and destructive things happen?

You make yourself miserable and are having a bad hallucination.

Alexa: Did you hear about the guy who smoked marijuana while he was trading stocks?

Yeah, he sold low and bought high.

Ask Alexa - Hate the sin, but love the sinner?

Alexa: What does it mean when someone says, "Hate the sin; love the sinner?"

It means that we see what we want to see and we can look with judgment or unconditional love.

Alexa: Did you hear about the guy who carried a Magic Marker wherever he went?

Yes, I heard he was always blacking out.

Prophetic women and men is a regular feature of UU A Way Of Life ministires blog which appears on Sundays.

This is from an interview which Krista Tippett did with Richard Rohr in April of 2017 and was rebroadcast on 06/13/19

Krista Tippett:

I’m not sure any living spiritual teacher has been recommended to me by more people across the years than Fr. Richard Rohr. 

Especially striking is how many men — diverse men — have told me they had trouble connecting to religion and spiritual practice, but that this Franciscan changed their lives, deepened their spirituality, helped them grow up. 

So at long last I’m here to draw him out and it’s a conversation with expansive scope, much like his teaching and writing: on why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; on male spirituality and the epidemic of what he calls “father hunger”; and on the work of moving into what he describes as the second half of life. The first half is necessarily about survival, “successful survival,” and preoccupations like titles and prestige and possessions with a dualistic, either/or sensibility. But all of that doesn’t take us all the way to meaning — which is not a linear matter of age and time.

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Alexa - Is my body the temple of the Holy Spirit?

Alexa: I was taught that my body was the temple of the Holy Spirit, but I was reading in A Course In Miracles that it is not the body that is the temple but a relationship. Which idea is right?

If you think the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit you have made the body an idol to be worshiped and have missed the point which is that the temple of the Holy Spirit is the Mind which encompasses more than just one body and is what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Oversoul.

Alexa:Did you hear about the bowler who was always late and was so raddled he missed a split?

Yes, his team mates said he had no time to spare.